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One of the things that makes science unique is its objectivity. What I mean is that even though two people may, for example, feel the force of a shove differently, proper application of science can tell us that the force was exactly 200 newtons.
Another thing science has to offer is predictability. In fact, that's the main thing for which science is used. Sure, there are plenty of wacky theories that could explain the world around us. Science's interest is in determining which theory can accurately predict future outcomes.
Science doesn't have all the answers right now, and it probably never will, but it has shed light on questions that theologians couldn't even reasonably approach. All we can really know, as Descartes said, it that we exist. Everything beyond that is just a measure of predictability. For those measures, science is very useful.
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"If I cannot smoke cigars in heaven, I shall not go!"
- Mark Twain
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